Cloth-folder.



No. 652,048. Patented lune l9, I900. A. SINZHEIMER.

CLOTH FOLDER.

(Application filed Oct. 3, 1898.) (No Model.) 2 Shae,ts-Sheet l.

WlTNESSES TNE NORRIS vzrzns co. PHDTO-LITHD, WASHINGYON, u. c.

(No Model.)

Patented lune l9, I900. A. SI NZHEIMER.

CLOTH FOLDER.

(Application filed Oct. 3, 1898.)

2 Sheets-Sheet 2.

m: n'onms PEYERS cc PHOTO-UTHO, WASHVNGTON, D, cv

UNITE STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER SINZHEIMER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

CLOTH-FOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 652,048, dated June 19,1900 Application filed October 3, 1898.

To ail whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER SINZHEI- MER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing in the city and county of Philadelphia, State ofPennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Devices forForming or Folding Shirt Plaits or Stays, which im provement is fullyset forth in the following specification and accompanying drawings.

My invention consists of a device for forming or folding shirt plaits orstays, such as are shown in the application for Letters Patent for animprovement in such plaits or stays filed by me on or about the 14th dayof September, 1898, Serial No. 690,908, said plaits orstays having weltsof different Widths, said device being constructed as hereimafterdescribed, and the novel features of the same being pointed out in theclaims that follow the specification.

Figure 1 represents a perspective view of a device for forming plaits orstays embodying my invention. Fig. 2 represents a vertical sectionthereof on line at cc, Fig. 1, on an enlarged scale. Fig. 3 represents avertical section thereof on line y y, Fig. 1. Fig. 4 represents asection of the product'of the device. Fig. 5 represents anotherperspective view of the former. Fig. 6 represents a plan view of theblank of which the former is constructed. Fig. 7 represents a horizontalsection of a detached portion.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the former, which is constructedof metal or other material, partly tubular, as at A, and flattened invertical direction at its inlet end B, the material of the formerextending from said end B toward the opposite inlet end being bent onitself, as at G, producing a hollow body D, substantially U-shaped,whose limbs E and F are of different widths, said limbs being inturnedor provided with lips, as at G" and H, respectively, producing the loopsJ and K, within which and the adjacent portions of the body are thedivisional walls or tongues L M, it being evident that the bodyD andloops J K are in communication with the tubular portion A.

Connected with the body Dis the attach- Serial No. 692,472. (No model.)

ing-plate N, and connected with the limb H is the table P, the latterprojecting laterally from said limb.

The operation is as follows: The material to be plaited or formed into astay is introduced into the vertical entrance or end B and pushed ordrawn t-herethrough, the device being provided with the openings Q, andR to assist the fabric by hand in its motion, if so required. When thematerial has passed the tubular portion A, it enters the horizontal bodyD, and owing to the bent form of the latter said material is deflectedin a right-angular or approximately-right-angular direction from avertical to a horizontal position and doubled on itself between thelimbs E and F and again doubled inwardly between the walls L and M andthe inturned portions G and H, this being occasioned by each of theloops J and K being narrower than the height of the tubular portion A,it being seen that the loop J is longer than the loop K. Consequentlythe limbs of the folded material are of different widths, each limbhaving an inturned piece thereon.

In practice the former is constructed of a piece of metal or material ofthe blank shown 'in Fig. 6, which when bent into shape forms the loops JK, while the tongues extend forward from the inlet part A of the formerand enter between the members of the loops, they being disconnected fromthe latter, although supported on said part A. The side edges of thetongues are thus left free from the bends a a of the loops, whereby thefabric may properly pass through the loops and be converted into afolded stay. The tongues L M keep the parallel members of the foldedstay as the material runs through the loops separated from each other,and as the folds or bends of the stay pass between the side edges of thetongues and the bends of said loops the material of the folds or bendsis creased and well defined, so that the shape of the members of thestay is preserved as the stay emerges from said loops.

Now when the plait or stay as produced is stitched to a proper part of ashirt or other garment said plait or stay has the resultant welts N andP of difierent widths, as will be apparent on inspection of Fig. 4..

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a former of the character specified, a tapering tubular bodyprovided with loops at the narrow end thereof, and tongues in saidloops, said tongues being continuities of opposite portions of one ofthe walls of said body and hung freelyin said loops from said wall.

2. In a former of the character specified, a tubular body having one endfiat and tapering therefrom forming a reduced opposite end, lipsextending inwardly from opposite sides of the outer wall of said body atthe tapered end thereof forming loops, and tongues forming continuationsof the other wall of said body entering said loops, and being freelyhung within said loops from said wall.

3. A former consisting of a tubular body having a flattened inlet end,the outlet end thereof having limbs provided with inturned edges formingloops, and tongues situated within said loops, the side edges of saidtubular body between the flattened inlet portion and said limbs beingcut away or notched, whereby both faces of both edges of the strippassing therethrough can be grasped and said strip manipulated.

4. A former consisting of a tubular body having its side edges cut awayor notched between the ends thereof, whereby both faces of both edges ofthe strip passing therethrough can be grasped and said stripmanipulated, the portion of the tubular body between said cut-away ornotched sides and the inlet end being flattened, the portion of saidtubular body between said cut-away or notched sides and the outlet endcomprising limbs and loops forming continuations of one side of saidfiat tened portion, and tongues situated within said loops, said tonguesforming continuations of and connected with the other side of saidflattened portion and extending across the cut-away or notched sides andinto the loops.

ALEXANDER SINZHEIMER.

Witnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, WM. 0. WIEDERSHEIM.

